Funeral for a Monarch Front Pages 2022-09-20
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Death of The Monarch in Front Pages 2022-09-09
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UK Smart City Rolls Out with Glasgow 2013-01-26
Posted by clype in Articles of Interest, Glasgow, Money.Tags: Award, Big Brother, city, Civil Liberties, Glasgow, Grant, Nanny State, Smart City, Technology
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The Technology Strategy Board has awarded Glasgow City the 24 million GBP “Future Cities Demonstrator” grant for projects that demonstrate how a city of the future might work.
This will include better services for Glaswegians; the city council will create an ‘app’ for reporting issues such as pot-holes and missing bin collections, and there will be real-time information about traffic, and ‘apps’ to check that buses and trains are on time. Plan include linking up the CCTV cameras across the city with its traffic management unit in order to identify traffic incidents faster.
It will use analytical software and security cameras to help identify and prevent crime in the city and monitor energy levels to find new ways of providing gas and electricity to poorer areas where fuel poverty is a big issue. (more…)
TV Chef Recipes ‘Unhealthy’ 2012-12-19
Posted by clype in Articles of Interest, Health, Science.Tags: ASDA, Chefs, Cooking, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, Jamie Oliver, Junk Food, Lorraine Pascal, Nigella Lawson, Ready meals, recipes, sainsbury's, tesco, TV food
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Recipes by prominent TV chefs are less healthy than supermarket ready meals, Newcastle University researchers say.
Meals by Mr. Jamie Oliver, Ms. Lorraine Pascale, Ms. Nigella Lawson and Mr. Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall were compared to those from Asda, Sainsbury’s and Tesco.
The meals in TV chefs’ cookbooks contained more calories, fat, saturated fat and sugar — but less salt.
The researchers said this was not about ‘bashing’ chefs as many campaigned to tackle obesity. (more…)
Body Language for Dating 2012-11-29
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‘People feel weird when they meet me,’ 27-year-old Mr. Blake Eastman tells me.
He’s perched on a coffee table eating gummy bears. Sitting across from him on the couch in an expansive, hardwood-floored rental space in Chelsea New York USA getting ready to watch him teach ‘The Dating Workshop’, I admit that I feel, if not ‘weird’, a bit self-conscious; it’s hard to meet a master of body language (or, to quote Mr.Eastman, ‘non-verbal communication’) and not worry about what you’re doing with your hands, how solid your eye contact is, and whether he’s reading your mind. Hint: He sort of is.
For eight months, Mr.Eastman has been teaching singles on the dating scene to read minds, too, and to use their bodies to send clear signals. (more…)
Intriquing Ultrarunner found dead. 2012-04-05
Posted by clype in Articles of Interest, Health, Humanities.Tags: Caballo Blanco, marathon, Micah True, Tarahumara, Ultra running, ultramarathon
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The mysterious thing about the disappearance last week of Micah True – better known as Caballo Blanco, the White Horse of the Sierra Madre mountains – was that, for once, we knew where he was. (more…)
Reasons to Learn Another Language 2012-03-17
Posted by clype in Articles of Interest, Discovery, Health, Intolerance, Science.Tags: brains, brainy, cleverness, creative, genius, intellect, intelligence, inventive, Language, smart, thinking
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Speaking two languages rather than just one has obvious practical benefits in an increasingly globalized world. But in recent years, scientists have begun to show that the advantages of bilingualism are even more fundamental than being able to converse with a wider range of people. Being bilingual, it turns out, makes you smarter. It can have a profound effect on your brain, improving cognitive skills not related to language and even shielding against dementia in old age. (more…)
Over 30 Years For Chance To Clear Name 2011-08-21
Posted by clype in Articles of Interest, Glasgow, Scotland.Tags: appeal, convict, Crime, gaol, jail, justice, prison, robbery, Scotland, time
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A man locked up for the armed robbery of a postal van is still fighting to clear his name almost 30 years after he was convicted. (more…)
Invisibility Cloak at St Andrew’s 2011-08-10
Posted by clype in Articles of Interest, Science, Scotland.Tags: Invisibility cloak, Janos, light, refractrive index
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A student has developed an optical sphere which could be used to create an ‘invisibility cloak’.
Mr Janos Perczel, 22, an undergraduate student at St Andrews University in Fife, said that by slowing down light by way of an optical illusion, the light can then be bent around an object to ‘conceal’ it. (more…)
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